A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War
II report from one of America's great twentieth-century
writers
On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U.
On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U.
In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin
IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as
amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the
unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the
most hilarious royal court ever.
The novelist who wrote THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the director
who produced CRISIS AND LIGHTS OUT in Europe combined their
superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine
to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples
of this pen-camera method of narration, but THE FORGOTTEN
VILLAGE is unique among them in that the text was written
before a single picture was shot.
The last of John Steinbeck’s play-novelettes, Burning
Bright was the author’s final attempt after 1937’s
Of Mice and Men and 1942’s The Moon is Down to
create what he saw as a new, experimental literary form.
In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous
success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes
wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle
of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the
lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the
scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered
dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future.
From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and
outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged
the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went.
Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions. to possess the
beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama, the
“cup of gold.
Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold
War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.
Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines
account of World War II-now with a new cover and
introduction
In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz.
In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz.
More than three decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one
of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as
a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to
Vietnam. Now, this original collection offers a portrait of the
artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him.
In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered
depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary
lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and
style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works
of his career.
Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God.
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the
encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a
wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John
Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where
simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for
themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s
characteristic interests.
